30 JANUARY 1988, page 39

Cinema

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid ('18', Lumiere) Preaching hell-fire Hilary Mantel D iscerning people nowadays lament the decline of the sermon; we don't get the genuine article, they......

High Life

Stop press Taki I find it extraordinary to say the least that the Egyptian billionaire shopkeeper Mohammed Al-Fayed can threaten to do a number on Rupert Murdoch's upmarket news......

Television

Simple pleasures Peter Levi I have not been watching a lot of adult television, because I have not been liking it. Panorama (BBC 1) have altered their tactics nowadays and......

Wendy Cope Will Return Next Week.

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